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Check this page regularly.
- When and Where:
Wednesday 9.00am-11.00am,
building 12, Law,
theatre L2.
- Week 2, 1-hour lecture.
- Weeks 3 on, 1.5-hour lecture, and Q+A tutorial after.
- Practical (20% + 20%) see below.
- Examination: 60% (1.5 hours),
date and time to be decided.
NB. You will need to get, in good time, an account
on the csse machine `nexus' to do prac2.
Will change -- check regularly!
- week 1, starts Monday 28 Feb -- lectures start in week two.
- week 2, 7 March
L1:
[Admin]
[Intro]
- week 3, 14 March
L2:
([Data & models and/or)
[MU]
(~[ACSC])
[information]
- week 4, 21 March
L3:
[Snob],
[Unsupervised class'n],
[finite-state],
[2-state dist'n]
-- Easter Friday 25 March - 3 April 2005 -- |
- week 5, 4 April
L4:
Use and discuss the 0th- and 1st-order Markov models
[here],
model complexity v. fit to data.
[Normal] distribution.
[Mixture] modelling...
- week 6, 11 April
L5:
...[EM-algorithm]
[Supervised class'n]
[Classification Trees1]
- week 7, 18 April
L6:
[Classification Trees2]
[algorithm] and
[application]
-- Anzac Day Monday 25 April 2005 --
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- week 8, Tues 26 April
L7:
[Fisher info]-(carry-over)
[multi-state]...
- week 9, 2 May
L8:
...multi-state
[Int codes],
[Coding]
including a sketch(!) of arithmetic coding.
- week 10, 9 May
L9:
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building block (distribution) |
examples of
structured models
[e.g. B' network]
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cond' prob' table (CPT) |
Markov model of order k |
prob' finite state automaton
PFSA/ HMM |
mixture model
(alg.)
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classification tree (alg.) or graph
(decision trees or graphs)
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multi state |
for each "row" |
for each "context" |
(i) for arc existence
(ii) exit probabilities (per state) |
(i) abundances of components
(ii) for discrete attributes |
distribution of categories (discrete attributes), per leaf |
an int' code |
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k (unless it is common knowledge) |
#states |
#components (classes) |
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continuous e.g. N(m,s) |
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for continuous attributes |
(leaf distributions, if continuous allowed) |
other? |
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structure of tree or graph |
- week 11 & 12 -- no lectures, but ...
Past examination papers:
[2005] (after the event),
[2004],
[2003],
[2002],
and other
[possible questions].
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